COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
A belgian style ale aged in whiskey barrels with drie fonteinen yeast added. This has the same base beer as Cuvee 3 without the dry hopping, barrel aging, and different yeast profile.

Bottle... Pours hazy and golden with a small, creamy, white head. The bouquet features yeast-driven funkiness and hints of fuzzy fruits and bourbon. Medium-bodied with tingly carbonation. The flavor is bready and lightly bitter with a nice suggestion of bourbon. Tongue-numbing finish. Good table beer. Bottle courtesy of biggsbowler!

Pours hazy golden with a good white head leaving some small laces. Aroma is fruity funky bretty nicely sweet too with some tones of hay. Flavor is fruity sourish funky sweet astringent and a bit yeasty.

Bottle thanks to Broadway Liquors. Pours a hazy pale gold with a bubbly white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a nice light funk with light fruit a bit of sweet light grains and just a hint of oakiness from the barrel. Flavor has some light tart fruits with a good amount of sweetness some dryness and a sweet grain backbone.

750 ML served into a Duvel Tulip.
A - A glowing hazed orange with a hefty bone white head.
S - Loads of tropical fruits-pineapple, mango, papaya, apricots, peaches, lemon meringue, sawdust, dry chalky yeast against a bright funkiness. Old church pews mixed with a beautiful aroma of peaches, if I could sum it up.
T - Creamy tropical fruit-mango, papaya, and guava, some grainy stone fruit- peaches apricots all play against a clean salty wooden backbone. The salty oak adds dryness and separates the fruit from the malt. Grapes and white wine like flavors start coming out while a sweet malt holds true.The drink leaves fruity and woody with dry finish.
M - Medium carbonation, medium body, creamy feel, very dry.
As much as I liked Cuvee 3, this is the best beer this brewery has put out, and it will be hard to ever live up to this one.
The yeast is very complex with creamy but acidic character, and a sweet malt comes through and fills the holes. It has a complex rawness that I have yet to come accross from any other Saision.
From drinking this beer 5 months ago, I can say that the yeast has already started transforming quickly. The fruit is more tart and acidic. The wood notes are drier than ever. This beer is definitely rising in overall quality. Still woody and raw, and still one of the best Saisons I’ve ever had.
Serving type: bottle
06-01-2012

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